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Foreigner

With ten multi-platinum albums and 16 Top 30 hits, FOREIGNER is universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world with a formidable musical arsenal that continues to propel sold-out tours and album sales, now exceeding 80 million.
Responsible for some of rock and roll’s most enduring anthems including “Juke Box Hero,”
“Cold As Ice,” “Hot Blooded,” “Waiting For A Girl Like You,” “Feels Like The First Time,”
“Urgent,” “Head Games,” “Say You Will,” “Dirty White Boy,” “Long, Long Way From Home” and the worldwide #1 hit, “I Want To Know What Love Is,” FOREIGNER still rocks the charts more than 40 years into the game with massive airplay and continued Billboard Top 200 album success. Streams of FOREIGNER’s hits are approaching 10 million per week.
FOREIGNER also features strongly in every category in Billboard’s “Greatest of All Time” listing.
Catalog sales often eclipse those of Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Def
Leppard, Van Halen, Aerosmith and most of their Classic Rock peers. (Source: Nielsen
SoundScan week ending 8/3/17). FOREIGNER‘s catalog sales were recently celebrated in
Business Insider as hitting the Top 40 among the Best Selling Music Artists of All Time.
FOREIGNER came in ahead of Britney Spears, Bob Dylan, Phil Collins, Prince, Queen, Bon Jovi and many others. FOREIGNER is one of the most viewed YouTube Classic Rock artists with weekly viewings frequently hitting the million mark (Source: Next Big Sound).
Founded in 1976, FOREIGNER‘s debut album produced the hits “Feels Like The First Time,”
“Cold As Ice” and “Long, Long Way From Home.” The album Double Vision followed, as did a string of hits including “Urgent,” “Juke Box Hero” and “Waiting For A Girl Like You.” Those songs helped give FOREIGNER‘s next album, 4, its impressive run at #1 on the Billboard chart. At the zenith of 80’s sound, FOREIGNER‘s fifth album, Agent Provocateur, gave the world the incredible #1 global hit,” I Want To Know What Love Is.” This musical milestone followed the record-breaking song “Waiting For A Girl Like You.”
At FOREIGNER‘s core is the founder and Songwriters Hall of Fame member Mick Jones, the
visionary maestro whose stylistic songwriting, indelible guitar hooks and multi-layered talents
continue to escalate FOREIGNER‘s influence and guide the band to new horizons.
Jones reformed the band after a 2002 hiatus and selected lead singer Kelly Hansen to help write an inspired new chapter in the history of FOREIGNER. One of rock’s greatest showmen, Hansen is among the most respected, consummate professionals in rock and roll. With a 35-year career that spans almost every area of music, from the role of lead vocalist to producing and engineering, Hansen has led FOREIGNER into the digital age while inspiring a whole new generation of fans.
FOREIGNER’s current lineup also includes multi-instrumentalist Tom Gimbel, noted bassist Jeff Pilson, Michael Bluestein on keyboards, guitarist Bruce Watson and Chris Frazier on drums. An unprecedented new level of energy led the group to a re-emergence of astounding music that speaks to FOREIGNER‘s enduring popularity.
With renewed vitality and direction, FOREIGNER hit the Billboard charts again with the 2005 release of their live Greatest Hits album, Extended Versions. Can’t Slow Down followed in 2009 and entered the Billboard chart in the Top 30, driven by two Top 20 radio singles, “In Pieces” and “When It Comes To Love.” To follow was the release of the band’s three-disc set, Feels Like The First Time, which included an acoustic CD with an intimate and unique re-interpretation of many FOREIGNER classics, studio re-records by the new lineup and a live performance DVD showcasing the group’s exceptional live energy.
FOREIGNER’s music experienced another surge in popularity in recent years thanks to usage in primetime television, major motion pictures, video games, advertising, and digital content.
Films such as Rock of Ages, Bad Moms, Angry Birds, Magic Mike, Pitch Perfect, television shows Orange Is The New Black, Stranger Things, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon have utilized FOREIGNER’s songs to complete their soundtracks.
Advertisers including Toyota, Stouffer’s and Ford have turned to FOREIGNER’s music to engage their fans.
In June 2013, Mick Jones was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. A multi-talented and multi-dimensional “musician’s musician,” Jones has also written songs such as “Bad Love” with Eric Clapton and “Dreamer” with Ozzy Osbourne, and produced records for others including Billy Joel’s Storm Front and Van Halen’s 5150. A Grammy and Golden Globe-nominated songwriter, Jones is the winner of the prestigious British Ivor Novello Songwriter Award for “The Flame Still Burns,” the soundtrack music for the film Still Crazy.
In May 2014, Atlantic Records Chairman Craig Kallman presented Mick Jones with RIAA gold and platinum digital awards for six FOREIGNER songs. These awards signify 500,000 and 1,000,000 downloads of FOREIGNER hits. That is more individual awards than any other heritage rock band, and an illustration of FOREIGNER’s resonance in the digital era.
In recent years, FOREIGNER has headlined several Live Nation tours, rocking across the country and the world with contemporaries and friends. In 2014, FOREIGNER headlined The Soundtrack of Summer US amphitheatre tour with Styx and Don Felder. A hits compilation album of the same name was released to coincide with the tour and immediately hit the Billboard Top 200 chart. In 2015, FOREIGNER joined Kid Rock on his “Cheap Date: First Kiss Tour.”
In October 2016, FOREIGNER hit a major milestone when the band performed for the very first time at New York’s iconic Carnegie Hall with a sold-out acoustic show. The concert highlighted the band’s ongoing relationship with the GRAMMY Museum’s initiative to promote music education in our nation’s schools. It included an a cappella contest among New York high schools who competed for a $5,000 prize donated by the band.
The year also brought the release of FOREIGNER‘s first ever live acoustic album In Concert:
Unplugged, recorded at a once-in-a-lifetime private concert hosted by Edsel B. Ford II at the
Ford Motor Company Conference & Event Center in Detroit, MI. The band’s royalties were
donated to JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) and the album is available exclusively via Amazon.
The year 2017 marked the celebration of FOREIGNER‘s 40th anniversary. The Warner Music Group released a double CD set “40,” which includes 40 songs recorded between 1977 and 2017. The album spent several weeks on the Billboard Top 200 chart and it features two tracks recorded especially for this release, “Give My Life For Love” and a new version of “I Don’t Want To Live Without You.” The album spent nine weeks in the Billboard Top 200 chart. The US anniversary headline tour played 40 shows across the United States where the band was supported by Cheap Trick and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience.
In April 2018, FOREIGNER topped the Billboard Classic Album Charts for the first time with FOREIGNER WITH THE 21ST CENTURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CHORUS, a live recording of FOREIGNER’s first-ever orchestral shows in Lucerne, Switzerland. The band went on to headline orchestral shows in the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand throughout the year including sold-out appearances at London’s Royal Albert Hall and the iconic Sydney Opera House. In the summer of 2018, FOREIGNER starred in a thirty city Live Nation US summer tour with Whitesnake and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening in support.
The excitement continues with the premiere of Juke Box Hero, the Musical in Canada. Following a series of sold-out workshops in Alberta and Calgary, the musical will premiere in Toronto in
February 2019. Written by the prolific writing duo, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, responsible for The Commitments movie and the Tracey Ullman TV show, the show features many of FOREIGNER‘s 16 iconic Top 30 hits.
Our latest release is The Greatest Hits Of Foreigner Live In Concert. FOREIGNER is donating ist worldwide #1 hit song, “I Want To Know What Love Is” to the Shriners Hospitals for Children for their 2019 advertising campaign. The band is also donating proceeds from sales of this album to the Shriners. This is a major release available at Walmart and retail outlets throughout the country and it is supported by a massive TV campaign by the Shriners. Details may be viewed here: http://media.showthemlove.org
More about FOREIGNER — including individual bandmember bios, tour dates, merchandise, and more — can be found on the band’s official website, www.foreigneronline.com.www.foreigneronline.comwww.facebook.com/Foreignerwww.twitter.com/ForeignerMusicwww.instagram.com/foreignerlivewww.youtube.com/user/FWebTeam

FOREIGNER FACTS
Foreigner’s catalog sales hit Top 40 in Business Insider magazine’s Best Selling Music
Artists of All Time, ahead of Britney Spears, Bob Dylan, Phil Collins, Prince, Queen,
Bon Jovi and Def Leppard.
Foreigner has 9 Top 10 hits – that’s the same as Fleetwood Mac and more than
Journey and most of their Classic Rock peers.
The 2018 orchestral album spent 12 weeks at #1 on the Billboard classical chart.
It generated sold out US and international concerts including a spectacular night at
the Sydney Opera House. Over 400 million YouTube views. Streams approaching 10 million per week.
Digital downloads of ‘Juke Box Hero’ and ‘I Want To Know What Love Is’ certified
platinum by the RIAA indicating Foreigner’s resonance in the new era.
Breaking the record in Billboard magazine, ‘Waiting For A Girl Like You’ was #2 in the
Top 10 for 14 weeks and landed Foreigner at #49 on Billboard’s Hot 100 All Time Top
Artists chart above The Eagles at #54, Fleetwood Mac at #73 and Aerosmith at #90.
Foreigner ‘4’ sat at #1 on the Billboard charts longer than any album by any artist in
Atlantic Records’ 70-year history.
Foreigner, consistently in the Top 20 at Classic Rock radio, has more airplay than Bon
Jovi, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, U2, Bruce Springsteen, The Who, Bad Company
and more.
Foreigner’s leader and founder, Mick Jones, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall
of Fame in 2013.
Mick Jones produced/co-produced every Foreigner album, as well as Billy Joel’s
‘Storm Front’ and Van Halen’s ‘5150’ and has written songs with Ozzy Osbourne and
Eric Clapton, with whom he wrote ‘Bad Love’. Eric received a Grammy for that one!
The Foreigner catalog has sold more than 80 million albums.
Foreigner has 16 Top 30 hits:
I Want To Know What Love Is (1)
Waiting For A Girl Like You (2)
Double Vision (2)
Hot Blooded (3)
Urgent (4)